A DIET FOR LOVERS / Ad Schulberg 1950 Theatre Play Script Jewish Women's Archive

Description

Title:
A Diet for Lovers
Writers: Alden Nash
Script Dated: July
1950
-Description-
This is an original 1950 Broadway Play Script which was never produced. It is titled, "A Diet for Lovers" written by Alden Nash. This is not like all of the other playbills and play books you see, this is the actual script used by the Agency to have it produced.
This rare play script is in good condition for its age. Please view the pictures above carefully.
It has an Ad Schulberg label on the front cover, which makes this item very collectible. Ad Schulberg is short for Adeline Schulberg. She is
Budd Schulberg's mother. Budd is best known for writing the screenplay for the classic 1954 film, "On the Waterfront."
-Adeline Schulberg-
Adeline Schulberg was a successful talent and literary agent. A committed socialist in her youth, she later became involved in child welfare, education, and other social issues.
She was born Adeline Jaffe on April 14, 1895, and arrived in the United States from Russia as an infant. Following the rise of antisemitic pogroms that swept Eastern Europe at the turn of the century, she, along with her mother, Hannah, and her two older brothers, Joseph and David, joined the two million Jews who would make the trip to the United States over a twenty-year period. The Jaffes were met in New York by Adeline’s father, Max, and they moved to Madison Street on the Lower East Side, a densely packed neighborhood filled with Jewish immigrants. Poverty was widespread on the Lower East Side, and the Jaffes were no exception. These early surroundings influenced Schulberg’s political views, and she became an active socialist who knew many of the movement’s leaders, including Leon Trotsky and George Sokolsky.
In 1913, she married an ambitious New York World reporter, B. P. Schulberg. Her husband soon got a job working for Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players, but it was Adeline Schulberg’s work in the suffrage movement that got B. P. his first assignment, a film documentary about the English suffragist leader Sylvia Pankhurst. The couple moved uptown to Harlem and Schulberg soon gave birth to a son, Budd. From a very young age she had a love for books and had dreamed of becoming a librarian. Although this dream was never fulfilled, this slight woman with boundless energy was determined to educate her son, taking him to lectures at nearby Columbia University and making sure that he was never without a book to read.
Five years after the Schulbergs were married, they moved to Hollywood, a young city in California that a small group of Eastern European immigrants had been rapidly turning into the motion picture capital of the world. When her husband got a job as a producer at Paramount Pictures, Schulberg became active in child welfare and education, and received a degree from the University of California in 1926. Drawing upon her socialist roots, Schulberg organized birth control clinics throughout the West. In 1929, Schulberg helped to found the first progressive school in California, which was based on the philosophies of educational innovator John Dewey.
Her marriage to B. P. Schulberg lasted for twenty years. They divorced in 1933, and Schulberg thrived in her new-found independence. Using the connections she had made in the Hollywood community, Schulberg set up the Ad Schulberg Agency and represented some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Marlene Dietrich, Fredric March and Herbert Marshall. Schulberg sold the agency in the 1930s, and since the terms of the agreement barred her from practicing in the United States, she moved to England. When World War II began in 1939, Schulberg set up an “underground railroad” in London for refugee talent from Nazi-occupied Europe.
After the war, Schulberg returned to New York City and became a talent scout for Columbia Pictures. Shelley Winters was her best-known discovery. Seeking to reestablish the control she had wielded as head of the Ad Schulberg Agency, she formed a literary agency. Her clients included her son, Budd, whose most famous work was What Makes Sammy Run?, novelists Vicki Baum, Fannie Hurst, and Ruth McKenney, author of My Sister Eileen, Roger Price, Mark Harris, and Rex Reed.
Adeline Schulberg died in New York City on July 15, 1977.
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